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Favorite Author’s Suggested Reading List

We asked some of our favorite authors to share some of their favorite books with us. We thought it would be nice to offer readers a chance to take a journey through the pages that inspired, intrigued, and excited our authors about the written word. It is our hope that you’ll enjoy these books just as much as our authors did.

Happy Reading!


 

HEATHER NEFF, Ph.D., is a professor of literatures in the African diaspora at Eastern Michigan University and holds a doctorate from the University of Zurich. She is the author of two previous novels, Blackgammon and Wisdom, which was named an Honor Book by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. Her latest novel, Haarlem, was published by Harlem Moon in 2005. She lives in Ypsilanti, Michigan.


heather Neff's Reading list
  1. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas: An American Slave by Frederick Douglass.
  2. Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New by Audre Lorde
  3. Mama Day by Gloria Naylor
  4. The Bone People by Keri Hulme
  5. The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Dandicat
  6. Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin’s




Novels by Heather Neff
  1. Blackgammon
  2. Wisdom
  3. Accident of Birth
  4. Haarlem


"If I weren't out there every day battling the white man, I could spend the rest of my life reading."
- Malcolm X – From The Quotable Book Lover (Lyons Press)